The everyday complications of his village general practice are very different from the challenges Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly faced nearly thirty years earlier when, fresh out of medical school, he accepted a post at the Aungier Street Dispensary tending to the impoverished denizens of Dublin's tenement slums. Even as he tries to make a difference, Fingal's tireless devotion to his patients may cost him his own true love.